Posts by Karen Finnin
Defining Location Of Telehealth Services For Regulatory Purposes
As the online consultation concept grows within the healthcare industry, regulators are battling to keep up with appropriate guidelines. As is often the case with new treatment techniques or approaches, the practice out paces the regulation. Some agencies that police the quality and complaints of health services feel the need to limit the geographical reach…
Read MoreCreating Seamless Patient Flow In Digital Practice
To create an entire telehealth experience for your patients, you have most likely combined a number of tech systems together. From completing forms, to making a payment, from scheduling appointments to conducting a video call. It is important to ensure that the end-to-end experience is as frictionless as possible for both you and your patient.…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Guide For A Great Quality Telehealth Video Call
In a face-to-face clinic, you do a few things to prepare the room before a consultation. You clean your treatment couch, fold the towels, put the tape scraps in the rubbish and chew on a mint. So what about preparing for a telehealth video call? Although your stinky onion breath may no longer be…
Read MoreHow To Choose A Telehealth Video Platform
Are you getting started with digital consultations and wondering what telehealth video platform to use? Over the past 6 years running Online.Physio, I have trialed many different video platforms for patient appointments. As you can imagine, the technology is growing and changing rapidly, with new platforms hitting the market almost daily. Rather than naming…
Read MoreTelehealth Consultations – Is There Evidence That They Actually Work?
When I decided to develop Online Physio, I had already paid a hefty deposit to a website developer before I had a sudden thought: ‘Geez, I had better check if there is any evidence showing that telehealth actually works’. It was not my finest moment of planning. Fortunately for me, the resultant…
Read MoreHow We Conduct Online Physiotherapy Consultations
When I started doing online physiotherapy consultations in 2011, all I had was a simple website and a skype account. The way that I conduct online Physiotherapy consultations has changed a lot since then. I often get asked by other health professionals how I actually ‘do’ online Physiotherapy consultations, so I thought I would share…
Read MoreIs Telehealth Destroying the Physio Profession?
Last week i had a thought leader within the Physio profession present a controversial question for my thoughts: Is telehealth destroying the health profession? This was my response: I completely understand the hesitation that Physiotherapists feel when faced with the treat of digitised consultations, bereft from physical touch. I felt the same way when…
Read MoreHow can we show up for our patients at the moment they make the decision to get better?
Gone are the days when all we did was wait for a patient to walk through the front door or phone the clinic. Technology has given us amazing opportunities to be present for our potential patient before they have even decided to see a health professional. If we can plant the seed…
Read MoreHealth Conference Organisers, We Need To Talk…
I wanted to jump out of my seat and scream…or lie on the floor and have a tanty like a 5 year old. It was the end of a long day at an Allied Health Conference, and my expectations of the day had been left well and truly unmet. Why? Because in…
Read More7 Questions to Ask When Choosing Exercise Prescription Software
Health professionals who prescribe exercise programs have, for many years, scribbled stick figures on a piece of paper to hand to their patients. Are you one of them? I used to be too. A few computer based exercise prescription programs have traditionally been on the market, and for those who trialled them, those…
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